https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Protesters staged rival demonstrations Saturday in the southwest of France over the killing of a brown bear in the Pyrenees mountains last month. https://www.thelocal.fr/20200705/rival-demos-in-france-over-killing-of-bear Sun, 05 Jul 2020 10:40:06 +0200 rival-demos-in-france-over-killing-of-bear A malnourished bear cub found wandering alone through a French village last week has escaped from the home of its appointed carer, triggering a major search, local authorities said Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190617/search-launched-after-abandoned-bear-cub-escapes-from-french-village Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:02:56 +0200 search-launched-after-abandoned-bear-cub-escapes-from-french-village An "abnormally predatory" brown bear that has killed horses in the mountains between France and Spain could be removed from the area if he doesn't change his behaviour, Spanish environmental authorities said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190525/this-horse-killing-bear-is-causing-unease-in-spain-and-france Sat, 25 May 2019 13:37:05 +0200 this-horse-killing-bear-is-causing-unease-in-spain-and-france A young French mountaineer has told the terrifying story of how he survived being chased by a bear in the Spanish Pyrenees. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180823/my-life-flashed-before-my-eyes-french-hiker-survives-bear-attack-unscathed Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:12:40 +0200 my-life-flashed-before-my-eyes-french-hiker-survives-bear-attack-unscathed A French tourist has been left with serious injuries after she was attacked by a bear in eastern Russia. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150826/french-tourist-attacked-by-bear-in-russia Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:55:25 +0200 french-tourist-attacked-by-bear-in-russia As part of a performance art piece, a Frenchman will eat, sleep and live for the next two weeks inside a stuffed bear at a Paris museum. He’ll even take on a bear’s diet of nuts, berries and insects. Why you ask, is he doing this? https://www.thelocal.fr/20140402/french-artist-to-live-in-bear-for-13-days-2 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:29:00 +0200 french-artist-to-live-in-bear-for-13-days-2 A fugitive bear, who had been on the run in the south of France, was finally snared at the weekend. After giving police the runaround for two weeks, the Tibetan brown bear was finally hauled back to the reserve from which it had escaped. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130708/fugitive-bear-detained-after-two-weeks-on-the-run Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:23:00 +0200 fugitive-bear-detained-after-two-weeks-on-the-run A 70-strong search team made up of policemen, firefighters, vets and even soldiers from a parachute regiment, have been given the runaround by an escaped Tibetan brown bear, who remained at large in southern France on Friday for the sixth day. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130628/fugitive-bear-spends-sixth-day-on-the-run-in-france Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:36:00 +0200 fugitive-bear-spends-sixth-day-on-the-run-in-france A Tibetan brown bear remained at large in the Aude region of the south of France on Monday despite a huge search effort to track down the animal, which escaped from a nearby zoo. Residents have been told not to approach the bear. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130624/tibetan-bear-on-the-lose-in-south-of-france Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:20:00 +0200 tibetan-bear-on-the-lose-in-south-of-france